A method for producing a trimethylgallium comprising hydrolyzing trimethylaluminum as a raw material, extracting organic silicon compounds contained in the hydrolysate with a solvent, quantifying methyltriethylsilane by a Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, selecting a trimethylaluminum having less than 0.5 ppm of methyltriethylsilane content for the raw material, purifying the selected trimethylaluminum by distillation, followed by reaction with gallium chloride to obtain a reactant and then distilling the reactant solution to obtain a trimethylgallium.